I bet you’ve heard about the Burj Khalifa. Initially titled the Burj Dubai? The tallest building in the world? Ahhhhh now you get it. Oh and it opened on 4th Jan 2010. Yay! On my baby brother Lovell’s birthday. The Burj Khalifa is awe-inspiring, extraordinary masterpiece in world class engineering, architecture and art....

Everything in Dubai is beautiful and so is the city’s public transport. The Dubai metro stations are so elegant, appearing like aerodromes dipped in gold. What’s amazing about the Dubai Metro is that it’s driverless! It’s a fully automated metro network with operations being controlled from a centre in Jebel Ali. A...

It was day one in Dubai and it was  mighty hot already, with temperatures soaring as high as 42 degrees celsius. Phew that’s hot! We had reservations to visit the Burj Khalifa. But before that there’s a quick stopover at Karama to pick up our tickets, which my cousin bought as a wedding anniversary gift for us. Al Karama,...

I’ve grown up in the Middle East, visited it a couple of time, so this trip was a homecoming of sorts. It was our wedding anniversary and we decided to go to Dubai as I was crazy about the Burj Khalifa and the Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi. My cousin who works at Hyatt in Dubai got us the visas issued easily. Did you know that...

The month of May has always been magical for me. It’s been a month of dreams coming true – backpacking trips across Europe, getting married, birthdays and anniversaries, and now am back to travelling again. Oh the joy! So get ready as I, Jo, makes her way to…     Pic Courtesy Lovell Dsouza Photography...